by Colleen Carroll Campbell
There I was, bleary-eyed after another night of round-the-clock feedings and struggling to balance the morning's newspaper on my lap as I nursed two squirming infants, when I read the latest rap on stay-at-home mothers.

Rating: 5.0/5

When Ronald Reagan died in 2004 after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer's,pundits across America repeated the conventional wisdom about dementia. The former president was only a "shell"; and "shadow"; of himself in his later years,they said, and his physical passing was a mere formality, the symbolic loss of a man who had vanished long ago. Those comments always bothered me, but I never fully understood why until two weeks ago, when I lost my father, Thomas Patrick Carroll Sr., to the same disease.

Rating: 4.5/5